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[–] blaggle42@lemmy.today 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

You know how in the debate, the moderators posed this, "what if tech company A" wants to come or leave or etc.

Am I the only one in NYC who doesn't want the big tech companies? If Facebook or Google were going to leave NYC, I would be all for it. All the big corporate tech bros make this place worse, not better- they enshittify everything they touch.

Small tech, yes, big tech- or fucking "AI company with too much money doing some dotcom-like stupid product" - no.

Also - one edit - Facebook being in the old K-Mart building, somehow makes sense - except K-Mart was better. Somehow saw Phillip Glass there many a time.

[–] DNS@discuss.online 20 points 2 days ago

I used to go to Venice Beach and admire the semi-quaint and weird vibes the area employed. Since Big Tech moved right next door, I noticed a decreased in diversity and an increase of tech bros ruining the scene. It no longer has the old vibes I once knew, in addition to everything in the area increased in price due to their presence.

American's fascination with Oligarchs and celebrities is absurd.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Also all the tech company employees could just work from anywhere who cares where they are located

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[–] jali67@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah I love corporate/oligarch loving politicians being called out

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

thats why they even allowed eric adams for a while.

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (10 children)

should be cross posted with "fuck billionaires". Musk could end homelessness in the US and UK, and still have more than half his current worth left. But corrupt politicians are still lining up to give him money.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that there are far more unused homes in the US than homeless people

[–] ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Also a friendly reminder that if every US church were to house 2 homeless people, homelessness would be ended.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 88 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Holy crap have they STILL not had that election yet?

The election cycle for mayor of New York is taking something like three times longer than that of a General Election in most countries, and because most talk shows are filmed in NYC the rest of the world has been getting a wildly disproportionate amount of coverage on it. I should not know this much information about the election of a city I've visited twice ever.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is not a normal election. This is a unique moment in recent American history. While the MAGAs are forcibly dragging us into Fascism, we finally have a viable Progressive candidate for a major office. Not only that, but it's the kind of office where Progressive policies can actually be tried out, and proven to work, or not.

Not since FDR, have we had an opportunity like this, and we need it as badly now as we did back then. .

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

it'll be a major wakeup call for progressives across the country too, about how weak establishment-dems grasp really is, that they can lose NYC to a actual self-described socialist.

the GOP died to a personality cult in 2016, the old guard dem's can be swept aside just as easily if they continue trying to campaign on "returning to normalcy" (read, blatant unsustainable ratfucking).

[–] Strakh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Smaller city, but don't forget about Omar Fateh in Minneapolis too. He won the DNC nomination against corporatist Frey and the DNC rolled back their nomination after the fact.

There are fights like this happening in more than just New York. It's important to keep that in mind.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I don't know what you're expecting. The election day hasn't changed. It's the first Tuesday in November, always has been and, barring anything extremely unconstitutional from certain spray tanned individuals, it always will be.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

The day hasn’t changed but they aren’t wrong that US election campaigns start reeeeally early compared to a lot of other places.

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[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

Americans love drama. The more they can draw out their soap opera elections, the better the ratings.

I hope he wins, though. The Dems need more people like him.

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The Dems are so far right now that a leftist candidate is a breath of fresh air

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The chair of the DNC, who has complete and total control of the party....

Has literally been saying for 3 months now that Mamdani is the future of the party, and we need to run more campaigns like his not just the outreach, but actually and specifically running on things that will actually help.people.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani

If all you hear about "the Dems" comes from billionaire owned media.

  1. You're gonna think when the party's at it's best, it's at it's worst.

  2. The oligarchs are going to make you a useful idiot in the hopes you depress turnout enough a neoliberal wins.

Please put some more thought into politics. It's important and we can't allow both parties to throw basic logic out the window. The average American should have been able to easily see all this, but they obviously can't.

We can't afford to be ignorant right now

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not one leader of the Dems wanted to endorse Mamdani in June

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[–] isaaclyman@lemmy.world 105 points 3 days ago (24 children)

Uh oh. If people realize that 700M in subsidies is the same amount of money as 700M in free buses, it’s all over. You’re supposed to act like one of them is cheap and the other is expensive. There’s not supposed to be math involved /s

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 144 points 3 days ago (9 children)

This is TERRIBLE Strategy! Spending Taxdollars on Rich people is GOOD! Spending Taxdollars on Poor people is HORRIBLE AND LIFE ENDING!

-DNC Strategists!

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It’s going to start trickling down any day now.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 159 points 3 days ago (40 children)

Really, really hoping Mamdani doesn't turn out to be Obama 2.0.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 134 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

That would require Zohran to be ideologically liberal. I think it's pretty clear from a number of litmus tests that he's a socialist. It's much more difficult to go from being a socialist to a centist. Ideologically, being a socialist isn't merely a step to the left of liberal. It's a fundamentally different worldview which resembles American liberals in a few areas but only in appearance. E.g. both a liberal and a socialist might advocate for universal healthcare. The liberal feels that private healtchare is a defect of an otherwise functioning system. The socialist sees the system working as intended in that it enriches the oligarch class via private healtchare. Therefore the socialist sees public universal healthcare as removing a revenue stream from the oligarch class, diminishing its power in the process and reducing the scope of the capitalist system. The improvement to people's lives naturally follows as a consequence of that. From this perspective, it would be very difficult for a socialist to be convinced they should abandon universal healthcare because insurers would lose too much money like Obama did.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (19 children)

He says he's a socialist.

Democrats say a lot of things that sound really, really good too... until they're elected, and then we realize they're shit-stains.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 53 points 3 days ago (6 children)

You're not wrong and that could totally be the case but again, he's gotta be a really good actor to keep the socialist line when being grilled on some issues. It's certainly possible that he is. But I think he's leftist schtick is very different than Obama's. Only one way to find out. Vote for him if you're in NYC. 😁

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[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 32 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Given a lot of his known history, I have enough confidence to say he's a real one, unlike Obama.

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[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Busses, train and subway - make all those free and it will probably be less expensive than keep building more and broader roads and parking + you get less pollution and fewer accidents. 🙌🏻

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[–] F_State@midwest.social 25 points 2 days ago

If they eliminate fares, it'll actually be less than 700 million because collecting fares costs money.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Imagine if a decent person stayed in a race running as an independent. We would never hear the end of it. But they take Cuomo seriously.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago
[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

So I had to look this up, because that Tesla factory does employee thousands of people, and it manufactures their superchargers, has an AI datacenter in it, and a bunch of desk jobs, so I wasn't sure what was failed about it.

Originally, it was supposed to be a solar panel manufacturing facility, but that didn't really pan out. There was a quota to employ a certain amount of high tech manufacturing jobs, which was later changed to just manufacturing jobs, and then just jobs.

So while the factory is there and functional, it's definitely not what was intended when it was built with certain requirements set on Tesla (or whoever would have won the contract), and what it does now, doesn't bring in anywhere near the expected economic boost that the original intended plan would have.

So in that sense I'd say it's definitely a failed project yes. But the factory is there and functional.

Edit: Also looks like their lease is coming up in a few years, and theres opposition to signing a new deal with Tesla.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 36 points 3 days ago (5 children)

One might say NYC gave Elon Musk, a white supremacist, a billion dollars to own a factory instead of employing those people in public transit and energy production for the city.

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